28 May 2009 by Joe Cicero. No Comments.
Unfortunately, we’ve been forced to delay the launch of our first site due to last-minute issues regarding the re-use of the data set we were hoping to use. Not to be deterred, and as we are in the business of opening up data sets, we’re currently investigating solutions to this problem and hope to launch [...]
19 May 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
As we mentioned in our last post, we’ve been busy working away on our first CF Labs project. We’re nearly there, and are gearing up for its launch. Late last week, we released an early beta version of the site to a number of people within Consumer Focus, and those signed up to our mailing [...]
1 May 2009 by Joe Cicero. 1 Comment.
It’s been a busy April for CF Labs. Our first month proper (i.e. with a full-strength team) has been all about getting our working environment set up, meeting people to get the message out and ideas in, and also embarking on our first development project. For this we’re producing a relatively straightforward proof-of-concept website which [...]
20 March 2009 by Richard Pope. No Comments.
We’re very happy to welcome Dafydd Vaughan to our little development team. Among other things Dafydd is responsible for cllrtweeps.com which tracks down and aggregates local councillors using twitter to talk to their constituents. Welcome Dafydd!
20 March 2009 by Richard Pope. No Comments.
A couple of weekends ago, with a different hat on, I helped out organising an event called RewiredState – National Hack the Government Day. The idea to get a bunch of programmers to reuse government data in new and useful ways. It was a great day: people seemed to enjoy themselves and some really cool [...]
19 February 2009 by Richard Pope. No Comments.
As part of the general setup of CFLabs, we’ve tried to come up with a plan for our first few months that’ll let us get going quickly and get us building some really useful stuff straight away. We’ll be running a call for proposals via this website to gather some of the best ideas for [...]
12 February 2009 by Richard Pope. 1 Comment.
Over the last month we’ve being busy setting up the basics for CFLabs, and are nearly ready to launch our call for proposals, and then get building some hopefully useful consumer tools. For people interested in what’s needed to set up a micro in-house startup like CFLabs, below is a list of the technology we’ve [...]
Consumer Focus is the independent champion for consumers across England, Wales, Scotland and (for postal consumers) in Northern Ireland. We operate across the whole of the economy, persuading businesses and public services to put consumers at the heart of what they do.
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